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In the fall, winter and spring at Como Park Lutheran, there are always new opportunities for exploring our faith, especially the intersection of faith and daily life. Please join us on Sundays, September - May, at the adult education hour between services, from 9:35 - 10:30am.
Each year we have a guest preacher from Luther Seminary; 2010-11 be Mark Throntveit– Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary.
We have a wide variety of forums which include local authors and professors; local ministry partners representing Keystone Community Services (Food Shelf), Luther Seminary, Lutheran Social Services of MN (LSS), Lyngblomsten, Plymouth Christian Youth Center (PCYC), Southeast Asian Ministries (SeAM), Wilderness Canoe Base and Camp Wapogasset, and more. Global ministry partners send representatives from Tanzania and Guatemala, and missionaries from Madagascar.
In the fall, winter and spring at Como Park Lutheran, there are always new opportunities for exploring our faith, especially the intersection of faith and daily life. Please join us on Sundays, September - May, at the adult education hour between services, from 9:35 - 10:30am.
Each year we have a guest preacher from Luther Seminary; 2010-11 be Mark Throntveit– Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary.
We have a wide variety of forums which include local authors and professors; local ministry partners representing Keystone Community Services (Food Shelf), Luther Seminary, Lutheran Social Services of MN (LSS), Lyngblomsten, Plymouth Christian Youth Center (PCYC), Southeast Asian Ministries (SeAM), Wilderness Canoe Base and Camp Wapogasset, and more. Global ministry partners send representatives from Tanzania and Guatemala, and missionaries from Madagascar.
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Dr. Mark Throntveit, Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, is our Visiting Preaching Scholar for 2010-11.
His series will be "Psalms: Sad Songs, Glad Songs, and Mad Songs" as a way of showing how God is involved in all aspects of our lives and works through the Psalms to change our sad songs into glad songs (lament to praise). Join us as he preaches and conducts the Adult Forum on October 24 and November 14, 2010; and on February 6, April 4, and May 1, 2011.
Mark Throntveit joined the Luther Seminary faculty in 1981 and was named associate professor of Old Testament in 1987. He was promoted to full professor in 1996. He was adjunct professor of Bible at Augsburg College in the spring of 1991 and adjunct professor of Old Testament at St. Thomas University from 1991-1998. He was a teaching fellow in Hebrew at Union Theological Seminary in 1979-81, and had been a teaching assistant in New Testament exegesis at the Presbyterian School for Christian Education in 1979-80. Ordained in 1975, Throntveit was associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Whitewater, Wis., until 1978. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, where he has been a member of the steering committee for the Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah consultation (1984-86), group (1986-91), and section (1991-present). He continues as Regional Coordinator of the Upper Midwest Region (position held since 1996).
Dr. Mark Throntveit, Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, is our Visiting Preaching Scholar for 2010-11.
His series will be "Psalms: Sad Songs, Glad Songs, and Mad Songs" as a way of showing how God is involved in all aspects of our lives and works through the Psalms to change our sad songs into glad songs (lament to praise). Join us as he preaches and conducts the Adult Forum on October 24 and November 14, 2010; and on February 6, April 4, and May 1, 2011.
Mark Throntveit joined the Luther Seminary faculty in 1981 and was named associate professor of Old Testament in 1987. He was promoted to full professor in 1996. He was adjunct professor of Bible at Augsburg College in the spring of 1991 and adjunct professor of Old Testament at St. Thomas University from 1991-1998. He was a teaching fellow in Hebrew at Union Theological Seminary in 1979-81, and had been a teaching assistant in New Testament exegesis at the Presbyterian School for Christian Education in 1979-80. Ordained in 1975, Throntveit was associate pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Whitewater, Wis., until 1978. He is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, where he has been a member of the steering committee for the Chronicles, Ezra-Nehemiah consultation (1984-86), group (1986-91), and section (1991-present). He continues as Regional Coordinator of the Upper Midwest Region (position held since 1996).
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